ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,772, issued on July 22, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System for data consolidation across disparate namespaces" was invented by Jason C. Wu (Mountain View, Calif.), Deborah J. Yu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Arup Ray (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments presented herein provide systems and methods for unifying data that is stored in disparate namespaces. A system described herein receives an electronic request for data associated with an entity. The electronic request includes a first identifier of the entity in a first namespace. The system includes a digital relation that m...